A Freemason's Guide to the Knights Templar in Scotland
By James
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In recent years there have been many books
written on the part that the Order of the Temple
(Knights Templar) may have played in the
founding of Freemasonry.
Some of these books have been fanciful in the
extreme, others have put forward some reasonable
arguments. This book does not dispute any of those arguments, but puts forward the facts as they are known in the written record.
James
Completed over 55 years in Masonry. Have been a member of 6 Craft lodges, Scottish and English constitutions, in the UK and South Africa. I am a Past Master of four of those lodges as well as being and having been a member of other masonic orders. Before retiring I worked in the printing and publishing industry for most of my working life. I spent 25 years in South Africa, returning to the UK in 1997. I now live in Fort William in the NW Highlands of Scotland. I started Temple-Arch Publishers as a hobby after retiring, I publish out-of-print masonic books as well as writing and publishing some of my own material.
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A Freemason's Guide to the Knights Templar in Scotland - James
A Freemason’s Guide to
the Knights Templar in Scotland
In recent years there have been many books
written on the part that the Order of the Temple
(Knights Templar) may have played in the
founding of Freemasonry.
Some of these books have been fanciful in the
extreme, others have put forward some reasonable
arguments. It is not the intention of this book to
dispute any of those arguments, but to put forward
the facts as they are known, the foundation of the
original Order, the important role that St Bernard
played in having the Order recognised, the tough
life that they had to endure, their final demise,
their foundation in Scotland, the facts,
so that as Freemason’s we do not have any illusions
about the foundation of the
Masonic Knights Templar Order
James Green, FSA Scot
is a PM of the Craft in both the Scottish and
English Constitutions,
PZ of the Royal Arch (EC & SC),
P TIM Cryptic Council
PM of the Mark
PM of the Allied Degrees,
PP of the KT (Scot),
30O in the Ancient & Accepted Rite (Eng),
a member of the Royal Order of Scotland,
a member of the Red Cross of Constantine,
a member of the HRAKTP,
A Freemason’s Guide
to the
Knights Templar
in Scotland
Editor
James Green, PP, FSA Scot
A Freemasons Guide to the Knights Templar
James Green
Copyright James Green 2002
Published by Temple Arch Publishers - Publishing at Smashwords
ISBN 978-1-902823-17-1
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Chapter One
The Beginnings
The Christian ideal of the warrior which ultimately became ‘knighthood’, was first encouraged by the Church who hoped to curb the unending bloodshed which was prevalent during the 10th and 11th centuries. The so called knight at this time had little in common with the courtly heroes of the Round Table. He was ignorant, illiterate, rough in speech and manners and earned his living mainly by violence. The unarmed section of the population, priests and peasants, were his victims in the main. The Church took the lead in trying to curb this violence by introducing two movements, the ‘Peace of God’ and the ‘truce of God’. This was an attempt to instil in the ruling classes Christian ideals, even as warriors. Knighthood then became almost a religious calling with sacramental rites, vigils, blessings and vows of chastity. Chretian de Troyes who was the first literary figure to mention the legend of the ‘Grail’ in his ‘Comte du Graal’ written in 1182 gives a description on what he thought the ideal knight should be.. ‘A knight must be merciful without wickedness, affable without treachery, compassionate towards the suffering and open handed. He must be ready to help the needy and to confound robbers and murderers, a just judge without favour or hate. He must prefer death to dishonour He must protect the Holy Church for she cannot defend herself’.
In 1095, Pope Urban II preached the first crusade at Clermont and called upon the faithful to recover Jerusalem, which had been occupied by the Moslem's since 638. Many saw this crusade as a summons from God to render military service to his cause and others as an opportunity to earn for themselves new properties. A great host of warlike pilgrims converged on the Holy Land. Thus began the First Crusade. Peter Partner in his ‘The Murdered Magicians’ gives a description of the knights who took part in this crusade: ‘The knighthood which had taken part in the first Crusades had been made up of acquisitive groups of warriors who hunted together and who subordinated individual courage to the joint discipline of the pack. By the end of the thirteenth century this earlier knighthood which had been taunted by St Bernard for its greed, its vanity, its evil violence, had begun to give what was to the literary idea of knighthood as an individual quest, a kind of lay parallel to the divine pilgrimage of the monks. The knight-errant who sought ‘adventure’ in a personal search which was often connected with worldly erotic experience had little in common with the violent sinners who sought to purge grave sins by taking the cross.’
When the Caliph Umar captured Jerusalem from the Christians in 638, he assured the Patriarch that Christian lives and property would lie respected and requested a tour of the Christian holy places. The Christian crusaders took a different approach. Jerusalem was taken in July of 1099. The slaughter which followed was reported in every contemporary chronicle of the time. The entire